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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 138-147Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.06.008
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- NHMRC
- March of Dimes Foundation
- Deafness Research Foundation
- US National Institutes of Health
- Medical Research Council [G120/861] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G120/861] Funding Source: UKRI
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The mammalian PCP pathway regulates diverse developmental processes requiring coordinated cellular movement, including neural tube closure and cochlear stereociliary orientation. Here, we show that epidermal wound repair is regulated by PCP signaling. Mice carrying mutant alleles of PCP genes Vang12, Celsr1, PTK7, and Scrb1, and the transcription factor Grhl3, interact genetically, exhibiting failed wound healing, neural tube defects, and disordered cochlear polarity. Using phylogenetic analysis, ChIP, and gene expression in Grhl3(-/-) mice, we identified RhoGEF19, a homolog of a RhoA activator involved in PCP signaling in Xenopus, as a direct target of GRHL3. Knockdown of Grhl3 or RhoGEF19 in keratinocytes induced defects in actin polymerization, cellular polarity, and wound healing, and re-expression of RhoGEF19 rescued these defects in Grhl3-kd cells. These results define a role for Grhl3 in PCP signaling and broadly implicate this pathway in epidermal repair.
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